We advise current and/or former staff to report any abuses
you may have witnessed while working at New Bethany Home for Boys and Girls. For information on your
rights and how to take action, visit
www.heal-online.org/blowthewhistle.htm.If you were fired or forced to resign because
you opposed any illegal and/or unethical practices at New Bethany Home for Boys
and Girls,
you have the right to take action.

The Arcadia location is rumored to be closed. If you can confirm the
status of this program (open/closed/renamed),
please contact us.

Trudy Arbitelle

Staff

New Bethany Home. Trudy and David (below) are now working for Amelia
Christian Academy in Amelia, VA. David falsely stated that Amelia
Academy (aka Amelia Christian Academy) does not exist in an
e-mail to HEAL on
September 2nd, 2010. We believe this further shows the deceptive
practices of this industry and group of programs.

New Bethany Home. Arbitelle now is reportedly pastor at Holly Farms Road
Baptist Church in Rice, VA. Source--Survivor e-mail on September 4th,
2010.

Olen King

Director

New Bethany Home for Boys in Walterboro, SC. King's son, Douglas, is
married to the Ford's youngest daughter, Penny. King currently
operates a "Christian Boarding School" called King Family Ministries in
Danbury, NC.

Johnson is now the former Vice president of Institutional advancement
at *Louisiana college.* Johnson is also married to Robbie (Ford)
Johnson, daughter of Mack Ford. Source:
http://www.facebook.com/l/effbfVAjWtW40OPne52DrYnDReQ;www.lacollege.edu/administration/timjohnson.aspx

Jonathan Johnson

Board Member

Johnson appears to be the minister at Church of Christ of Pine Prairie.
Johnson is the son of Timothy and Robbie Johnson and grandson of Mack Ford.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/l/effbfQUd8Z_hyoJfxdjwGGJqdvw;www.ccpineprairie.com/
Jonathan Johnson is a paid staffer for Sen. Neil Riser (LA). Source:

Reportedly currently living in Monroe, NC The Barnes' are associated
with Victorious Valley Home &
Academy in SC (2014). The association is through Bible Baptist
Church-Faith Promis Missions (website: biblebaptistliveoak.com)

Patty Barnes

Staff

Reportedly currently living in Monroe, NC The Barnes' are associated
with Victorious Valley Home &
Academy in SC (2014). The association is through Bible Baptist
Church-Faith Promis Missions (website: biblebaptistliveoak.com)

Mr. Garrison

Staff

*(New
Bethany Home for Boys and Girls, like many other programs in this industry, keeps a "tight
lid" on any specific information regarding their staff, qualifications, and
practices. Pleasecontact us
with the names of any staff of which you have firsthand
knowledge or experience. Thank you for your help.)

(Kathryn Joyce's commentary on New
Beginnings, New Bethany, and Hephzibah House begins approx. 19 minutes in
and lasts until 57 minutes into the audio.)

(Kim Holt, New Bethany
Survivor--Speaks Out! (April 10th, 2012))

Survivor Snapshots From Teen-Home Hell Parents were told their daughters would
sing, pray, and ride horses. The girls say what they got was closer to
torture. —Photos by former residents of New Bethany School for Girls; text by
Kathryn Joyce and Michael Mechanic
Next (link will take you to a non-HEAL website) The New Bethany School
for Girls no longer exists, at least by that name. But it was one of an
unknown number of homes for "troubled teens" that cater to the Independent
Fundamental Baptist community—a web of thousands of autonomous churches linked
by doctrine, overlapping leadership, and affiliations with Bible colleges like
Bob Jones University. IFB churches emphasize strict obedience and consider
teen rebellion an invention of worldly society, so families faced with teenage
drinking, smoking, or truancy often entrust their children to such programs.
These reform schools trace their lineages to
Texas radio
evangelist Lester Roloff, who founded the Rebekah Home for Girls in Corpus
Christi back in 1967, employing disciplinary tactics that were adopted by
dozens of imitators. Roloff's wards were subjected to days in locked isolation
rooms where his sermons played in an endless loop. They also endured
exhaustive corporal punishment. "Better a pink bottom than a black soul," he
famously declared at a 1973 court hearing after he was prosecuted by the state
of Texas on behalf of 16 Rebekah girls. (The attorney general responded that
he was more concerned with bottoms "that were blue, black, and bloody.") This
slideshow features snapshots posted on online "survivor" forums by former
residents of New Bethany, who confided with Mother Jones contributor
Kathryn Joyce about
their treatment at the hands of the home's authorities. (One of the photos was
titled: "Hell.jpg".)As Joyce reported in
her must-read magazine piece, "Escape from Missouri," which appears online
as "Horror
Stories From Tough-Love Teen Homes," such stories are common among former
residents of the Roloff-inspired homes, which continue to operate with near
impunity in states like Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana. Among other
indignities, former residents describe being beaten, hazed, locked in
isolation, refused bathroom privileges, and denied contact with their loved
ones. The schools are largely located on remote rural compounds, which
discourages escape and helps their operators avoid scrutiny. "After a while, I
was so brainwashed I didn't even want to run," one survivor told Joyce. "I
figured this was God's plan." Source:
http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2011/08/abusive-religious-reform-homes/new-bethany-residents